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7 Important Skills for Every Graphic Designer

The days of getting away with unattractive websites and purely text web contents are over; people are more interested in the visuals on your website nowadays. The demand for graphic designers has been on the increase since the new trend of having great visual for your contents and website started.

Having striking visuals on your website will glue your readers to your website and will also make you achieve your aim of having the website in the first place.

There are some essential skills that every graphic designer should have. This article will tell you about seven of them, so keep on reading.

1. Typography

Typography is a part of design that is really old (ancient) but yet still important in the modern digital age. People studying the art have spent a lot of time doing so, and still, there is something new to learn.

Typography plays a big role in design as people react either negatively or positively to how your font complements your design. This is why designers, in this case, graphic designers must understand topography. Things like font family, font sizes, tracking, line height etc. must be well known to a graphic designer in order to be successful.

2. Color theory

Color is another important part of design that graphic designers must have good understanding of. Judicious and prudent use of color in a design is one of the things that make a great designer. Your readers decide for a split second whether or not to stay on your site or buy your product based on your color decision.

You need to grasp and understand color theory, which involves lightening, shadowing and other effects.

3. Conversion Optimization

Having a balance between wasting too much space and cluttering everything together is crucial to graphic design. As a designer, you need to know how to arrange the different elements on a page so as to guide the readers towards the aim (conversion). If it’s a retail website for example, the layout needs to be arranged so it’s easy for visitors to purchase from the site.

4. Print Designs

Prints are still very much important for a graphic designer to know even though everything is on the web nowadays. Printing processes, separation of colors, master pages, knowledge of color space, grid layout, bleeding are things a designer should know.

5. Basic HTML & CSS

These are programming languages, but a graphic designer should have a hang of it so as to be able to manipulate the site they are working on by going through the back-end. Having this skill will also widen your scope of opportunities as a designer.

6. Multimedia Design Software

You might be required to provide more than images sometimes; that is why it is important to be able to operate multimedia design software like Acrobat. Learning to use multimedia design software will help you develop more complex skills that will be essential in accomplishing your projects and provide your clients with multimedia-rich designs.

7. Creativity

Well, this part can’t be stressed enough. To be a great graphic designer you have to know how to make original sketches with little ideas given to you by your clients. You have to be able to think wide and come up with visual ideas that would portray the mind of your client. You also need to be good at drawing even though the designs will be on screen. As a graphic designer, you should be able to cope without copying existing images or stock images and create!

These are just some of the skills I feel a graphic designer needs to have. You might share a different view or have wider knowledge. We would love to hear from you as well.

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